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Circular No. 06/2025-Customs
394/08/2017-Commr.(Inv-Cus.)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
(Investigation-Customs)
*****
New Delhi, Dated 04
th
March, 2025
To,
All Pr. Chief Commissioner/ Chief Commissioner, Customs/ Customs
(Preventive)/ CGST and Customs Zones,
Pr. Commissioner, Directorate of Logistics,
Pr. Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence/ Directorate of
Goods and Service Tax Intelligence,
Webmaster, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs.

Madam/Sir,

Subject:- Disposal of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)/Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV)/Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)/Drones-reg.

Kind attention is invited towards CBIC’s Circular No. 32/2019 dated
20.09.2019 amended by Circular No. 05/2024-Customs dated 22.05.2024 on the
above-mentioned subject.

2. In partial modification to the said Circular, the following amendments are
being made:-
(i)  Para 4.b. of the said Circular shall be substituted as follows:
"All the Drones of all the categories shall be transferred to the warehouses of
the following Customs formations, namely, Chennai (Airport), Delhi (IGIA),
Kolkata (Airport), Mumbai (Airport) and Bengaluru (Airport & Air Cargo), which
shall be the focal Commissionerates for stocking, segregation, joint inspection
by all agencies and distribution. For this purpose, all the Customs Zones have
been mapped to these focal Commissionerates as indicated at Annexure-A."
(ii)  Annexure-A of the said Circular shall be substituted by the Annexure
appended to this circular as Appendix-I.
(iii)  Annexure-C of the said Circular shall be substituted by the Annexure
appended to this circular as Appendix-II.
Yours faithfully



Poonam Bhatt
Deputy Secretary
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Appendix-I
Annexure-A

[CBIC Circular No. 32/2019 dated 20.09.2019 as amended by Circular No.
05/2024-Customs dated 22.05.2024 and Circular No. 06/2025-Customs dated
04.03.2025]

Mapping of Customs Zones to the Focal Customs Commissionerates for
transfer of confiscated Drones

S.No.
Customs / Customs & CGST / Customs
Preventive Zone
Focal Customs
Commissionerates
1.
Chennai, Tiruchirappalli (P), Thiruvananthapuram
(Kochi), Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad
Chennai (Airport)
2.Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Patna (P) Kolkata (Airport)
3.
Mumbai-I, Mumbai-II, Mumbai-III, Pune,
Ahmedabad, Nagpur
Mumbai (Airport)
4.Delhi, Delhi (P), Bhopal Delhi (IGIA)
5.Bengaluru
Bengaluru (Airport &
Air Cargo)
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Appendix-II
Annexure-C

[CBIC Circular No. 32/2019 dated 20.09.2019 as amended by Circular No.
05/2024-Customs dated 22.05.2024 and Circular No. 06/2025-Customs dated
04.03.2025]

List of Nodal Officers

S.
No.
Organization Name of Nodal
Officer
Designation Contact Details
1SPG Shri Parveen
Kumar
SSO/Tech 9582304489
spgtech@nic.in
2CRPF 1. Sh. Dinesh
S.A.,
2. Sh. Chandra
Shekhar
Sharma
1. Assistant
Commandant
2. Deputy
Commandant
011-26108330
3NSG Maj Nitin
Kumar,
IC81972L
Major 9337254660
4NTRO Maj DS Sidhu
(Retd.)
Dy Chief Aviator8019500111
5CISF 1. Sh.Jitender
Rana, IPS
(Delhi Airport)
2. Shri Deepak
Agarwal
(Mumbai
Airport)
3. Shri Arun
Singh (Chennai
Airport)
4. Shri Shiv
Kumar
Mohanka
(Hyderabad
Airport)
5. Shri Manju
Nath, IPS
(Bengaluru
Airport)
6. Smt. Jayati
1. Dy. Inspector
General
2. Dy. Inspector
General
3. Dy. Inspector
General
4. Dy. Inspector
General
5. Dy. Inspector
General
6. Dy. Inspector
General
7. Commandant
8. Commandant
1. 011-49652036
2. 022-26264729
3. 044-22563702
4. 040-66601424
5. 080-22001521
6. 033-39874560/61
7. 079-22853161
8. 020-26683234
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Ghosh (Kolkata
Airport)
7. Shri Rakesh
Choudhary
(Ahmedabad
Airport)
8. Shri Santosh
Kumar Suman
(Pune Airport)
6BSF Commandant
(NIIE)
Commandant Room No. 405,4th Floor,
Block-10, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 03
email: niie.bsf@bsf.nic.in
011-24352361, 24360922
Fax: 011-24361794
7ITBP Sh. Gautam
Kumar (Main)
Deputy
Commandant
9891165180
Sh. P. K. Tiwari
(Reserve)
Deputy
Commandant
8527399681
8Army, Inf Dte /
Inf-5
Col. NR
Choudhury
Colonel 33821/9671342555
9O/o JS (Navy
and Def
Staff),
Department of
Military Affairs
Cdr V BharatCommander 011-
26771392/1311
Fax: 011-
26771367
10Assam RiflesLieutenant
Colonel
Sumit
Vashistha,
General Staff
Officer-1
(Equipment
Management/
Peace
Establishment)
9617626912
11Indian Air
Force
Gr. Captain
Muneesh
Sharma (23934-
G) Adm
Group CaptainTele: 011-23010231,
IP-21115946
Mob-9810366020
rakshak.vayuyodha@gov.in
12Delhi PoliceSh. Sukhraj
Katewa
DCP/Security(PM)

8130099021
13Intelligence
Bureau
Sh.
Mahakaleshwar
Nath
Joint Deputy
Director
8920172776
Geospatial.mha@gov.in
14Centre for
Futuristic
Defence
Studies
(CFDS),
National
Forensic
Group Captain
Ajay Purandare
(Retd.)
Head, CFDS groupcaptain.ajaypurandare
@nfsu.ac.in
Dr. Nilay MistryBranch Head,
CFDS
nilay.mistry@nfsu.ac.in
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University
(NFSU)
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